How to format your references using the Case Studies in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Case Studies in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

S.B. Power, Climate science: Expulsion from history, Nature 511 (2014) 38–39.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H.N. Cai, P. Shen, Effects of cis arrangement of chromatin insulators on enhancer-blocking activity, Science 291 (2001) 493–495.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Stern, V. Umansky, I. Bar-Joseph, Exciton liquid in coupled quantum wells, Science 343 (2014) 55–57.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Schneider, E. Schuettpelz, K.M. Pryer, R. Cranfill, S. Magallón, R. Lupia, Ferns diversified in the shadow of angiosperms, Nature 428 (2004) 553–557.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

C. Merritt, Process Steam Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Y. Merkuryev, G. Merkuryeva, M.À. Piera, A. Guasch, eds., Simulation-Based Case Studies in Logistics: Education and Applied Research, Springer, London, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y. Zheng, S. Jamil, Beyond Efficiency: China’s Energy Saving and Emission Reduction Initiatives vis-à-vis Human Development, in: M. Caballero-Anthony, Y. Chang, N.A. Putra (Eds.), Rethinking Energy Security in Asia: A Non-Traditional View of Human Security, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 79–98.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Case Studies in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Lucky Female Flour Beetles Get More Sperm If They Smell Like Other Males, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/lucky-female-flour-beetles-get-more-sperm-if-they-smell-other-males/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Railroad Safety: Engineer Work Shift Length and Schedule Variability, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

G. Reehal, Designing Low Power and High Performance Network-on-Chip Communication Architectures for Nanometer SoCs, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2012.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

S. Dynarski, Where College Ratings Hits the Wall, New York Times (2014) BU7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Case Studies in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
ISSN (print)	2351-9886
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